From ed06e38b1412cdb938bca01a2bf8239e0fc0f765 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sam Lord <163201376+sam-sneed@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 15:25:33 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Create spl

---
 spl | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 spl

diff --git a/spl b/spl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..35e7c07
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spl
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
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